Cloudflare Sandbox vs CoreWeave Sandboxes

Cloudflare Sandbox costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. Cloudflare Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours.

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Cloudflare Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
None
Max session
Not listed

CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

What is different

6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

Cloudflare Sandbox
CoreWeave Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Storage
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Billing
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Isolation
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Storage
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Free tier
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Idle stop
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000

Platform

Isolation
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Cloudflare Sandbox:
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Cloudflare Sandbox
CoreWeave Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.090
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.180
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.360
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Cloudflare Sandbox fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.180 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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